April 05, 2004

Randi Rhodes-Condi looks French no like a reptile-no reptilian french and kerry looks like Thomas Jefferson-
who by the way liked Pais too because he could bring his slave girl-"you know Bush knew and he went into the classroom anyway"

She actually said Condi looks like a reptile-

Cant Believe this is first instant I listened to today-couldn't take much more

April 02, 2004

Didn’t really get a chance to listen today but a few themes are coming through.

1) No matter how hard they try to accentuate domestic issues-foreign policy discussions seem to predominate.

2) The tone is elitist, smarmy, and disingenuous and negative-there is no working class or middle class feel to the station-Lynn Samuels formerly of ABC was a legitimate NY working class radio personality.

3) The use of guest “start” Madeline Albright, Spike Lee, Hilary Clinton, Richard Clarke will not be sustainable-every day cannot be opening day

4) They are obsessed with Rush-Franken’s remarks about Rush sharing a prison cell with an “Afro American” was racisit, mean spirited and ultimately self defeating-
Note to Franken-people in recovery vote-those still active don’t

5) I live right on the fault lines of red and blue America at least locally and while I don’t think CT, MA, VT or NY are likely to go for Bush-we are not served by Air America-

6) There is a theme running across several shows that the mainstream media is conservative-while this attempt at triangulation is at least theoretically astute it is being undone by the heavy handed approach.

Several times I heard Franken say-that so many poor and middle class people vote against their own economic self interest and this phenomenon was due to the conservative bias of the mainstream media. It’s good that Americans now will have Franken to explain it’s own interests

Harping now on national debt-those fiscally responsive democrats-going on about lock box-
But privatizaton bet its not brought up

Blogging will be lighter today but I hope to listen in to Air America periodically-I can’t get it in my car unfortunately. I heard the first funny thing today-Spike Lee said, “Cold Mountain was as long as the Civil War”

There is a ridiculous drum solo going on now-that I don’t get-Franken said GWB is weak on terrorism-

I really have work to do-am reviewing the genomics/proteomics area for a client and cannot afford this painful luxury much longer

Unfortunately the stream had some trouble this morning when Christopher Hitchens was on but from the little that I heard the interviewer was defensive and unctuous and thanked him for his well presented opinions but as soon as he was off said that Hitch was behind the curve on Iraq-feeble attempt at humor paraphrased "Hitch likes Paul Wolfowitz and hates Mother Teresa-now that's a contrarian"

The trope seems to be developing that what happened in Iraq was like what happened in Somalia-if they keep it up it will frame the issues in a way that will make it clear their(the liberal opinion is appeasement)

They are also hammering the theme that Bush dropped the ball on terrorism-prior to 9/11-

In my and many other opinions -as long as the topic as national security-air america is playing a losers game

March 31, 2004

Pat Buchanan is on now-speaking in a calm manner about neo cons and the undesirablility of continuing to project American power in the post cold war era-it's amazing but the shrill liberal was on good behavior for Buchanan-

She not claims that this admisnistration is not representing conservatives either-now claiming the real fiscally responsible people are the liberals

she just said she spends as little time with her children as she can-is this supposed to be funny